Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been much like his time in the Oval Office, memorable, somewhat silly and chaotic, and constantly trending online.
The Republican nominee, 78, has gone viral for embracing criticisms from Democrats, with mostly riding a MAGA garbage truck to his rally in Wisconsin in response to Joe Biden’s comments that Trump supporters were ‘garbage’.
But the former president became dominating conversations on the internet early on in his political career. The first month into his presidency, Trump gave himself an A+ grade for his efforts in the Oval Office and social media users were quick to share their two cents on the topic.
Trump has gone viral over silly posts on X, such as the time he tweeted the made-up word ‘covfefe’, as well as for outlandish claims, including suggesting the American public inject themselves with bleach to combat covid-19.
Some of his less friendly moments, such as shoving a NATO member to be front and center in a photograph or yelling at a young boy who mowed the White House lawn, were also turned into memes.
DailyMail.com takes a look at some of the internet’s favorite Trump moments as the former president hopes to secure a second term in tomorrow’s election.
‘I give myself an A+’
Donald Trump, following his first month as president, said he believed he deserved an A+ for effort, but only a ‘C’ for messaging.
Trump during a February 28, 2017 interview on Fox & Friends gave his presidential performance an initial grade.
He said that ‘in terms of effort, which means something, I give myself an A-plus.’ But when it came to delivering his messages said, ‘I would give myself a C or a C plus.’
The then-president said specifically that his White House could have done a better job communicating with the American people about his plan to deport criminal illegal immigrants.
It wasn’t ‘communicated effectively,’ Trump admitted. ‘And maybe that’s my fault.’
‘He died like a dog’
Five years ago, Donald Trump announced that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘died like a dog’ as the result of a US Special Ops forces raid on his hideout in northwest Syria.
‘Last night the United State brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,’ Trump said from the Diplomatic Reception Room on October 27, 2019.
‘He was the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world,’ Trump continued as he described the events of the raid.
Al-Baghdadi detonated his suicide vest, killing himself and three children, during an overnight targeted attack in Syria’s Idlib province, the then-president confirmed.
Trump touted the operation and al-Baghdadi’s death as ‘bigger than bin Laden.’ Osama bin Laden, founder of Al-Qaeda and the terrorist leader behind the September 11 terrorist attacks, was killed in 2011 during a Navy SEALs operation during Barack Obama’s presidency.
He also referred to al-Baghdadi and those who followed him as ‘losers,’ and lauded that no US personnel were lost during the raid. He did say, however, that one ‘talented canine’ was injured.
Trump, the night before making the public announcement confirming al-Baghdadi’s death, teased the incident by tweeting: ‘Something very big has just happened!’
Trumps shoves his way to center of NATO group photo
A Trump moment went viral for the wrong reason on May 23, 2017, as the then-president and the leaders of 27 other NATO member countries assembled for a photo at the treaty organization’s gleaming new Brussels, Belgium headquarters.
As Donald Trump made his way through the group to take his position in the front row next to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Montenegro’s Prime Minister Duško Marković was in his way.
So Trump put his hand on Marković’s upper arm and shoved him aside.
The ‘family photo’ was planned with assigned positions for 31 people: the 28 heads of state and the Montenegrin, plus Stoltenberg, and the king and prime minister of Belgium, the host country.
Trump, Stoltenberg and the Belgians were set to be front-row center, with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Trump’s other side. Marković was placed in the back row on the far right end.
After the incident, Trump told reporters that the whole situation was harmless
‘It didn’t really register. I just saw reactions about it on social networks, he said. ‘It is simply a harmless situation.’
Markovic, at the time, added that it is ‘natural that the president of the United States is in the front row.’
Hurricane ‘Sharpiegate’
Hilarious #Sharpiegate memes flood social media in September 2019 after then-President Donald Trump brazenly shared a map of an old Hurricane Dorian forecast that was altered with the permanent marker.
Trump presented an altered National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration map at a hurricane briefing.
The White House did not disclose that the map bearing the weather service’s logo had been changed in any way, but it was hardly a secret – the black mark was clearly done in sharpie, Trump’s favored medium.
Trump declined altering the map and said he did not know who made the changes. He told reporters at the time: ‘I don’t know. I don’t know, I don’t know.’
But ‘sharpie’ still trended on Twitter, the social media platform now known as X, with many taking the silly moment as a prime chance to poke fun at Trump’s antics.
Several users shared doctored images of President Trump’s inauguration celebration, drawing little figurines in the crowd.
Inject bleach
Donald Trump went viral just one month into the coronavirus pandemic, when he proposed unorthodox new treatments for the virus during a White House briefing, including injecting cleaning agents in the body and use of ultraviolet lights.
Trump, who studied finance and real estate but touts his gut instincts about medical and scientific issues, brought up possible treatments during a press conference on April 23, 2020.
Trump asked William Bryan, then a senior Homeland Security science and technology advisor: ‘Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light? And I think you said, that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it.
‘And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting.’
Then he raised another possible treatment. ‘And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that? By injection inside or almost a cleaning. As you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that,’ Trump said.
‘So that you’re going to have to use medical doctors. But it sounds interesting to me,’ he said.
It came after Bryan delivered a report claiming that ultraviolet rays and heat have a potent impact on the pathogen.
The ‘study’ – which was not peer-reviewed and therefore is not a fully-fledged piece of research – also uncovered that bleach can destroy the virus when isolated from saliva within five minutes, while isopropyl alcohol took just a minute to kill it.
Both of those were when the virus was outside the body.
‘How do you like my garbage truck?’
Donald Trump went viral last week when he trolled Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by riding a MAGA garbage truck to his rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday night.
The former president rolled up to reporters on the tarmac in Green Bay, leaning out the window to take questions before his event in the battleground which is one of the seven states that will decide the election.
‘How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden,’ he told the waiting media while wearing an orange workman’s vest.
‘For Joe Biden to make that statement — it’s really a disgrace,’ he added before speaking to supporters while Harris addressed her own fans in a different part of the state.
Trump was referring to the comments made by 81-year-old Biden that referred to his supporters as ‘garbage.’ The President said: ‘The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.’
The White House later clarified his words with an apostrophe in the transcript, and claimed the president was only talking about comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’
Kamala Harris tried Wednesday to distance herself from her chief’s remarks.
The side of the truck was emblazoned with a Trump sign and had an American flag on the window.
As the 78-year-old GOP nominee leaned out the side, wearing an orange reflective vest, he took questions from the press.
One asked if he owes Puerto Rico an apology over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling it a ‘floating island of garbage’ during his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.
‘I love Puerto Rico. And Puerto Rico loves me. I don’t know anything about a comedian’, Trump said.
‘Nobody has done more for Puerto Rico than me. Nobody gets along better with Puerto Rico. They love me and I love them.’